Off course you’ll want to have Apache started automatically after a reboot to accomplish this you need to create a file called ‘com.diymacserver.apache2.plist‘ in the directory ‘/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/‘. The content of the file should look like:

@Francis, by running just httpd OS X takes the first one it finds in your path which is the default installed Apache. To use ours you should use /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -v
To startup this version you should use /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl start (as you can see in the plist)

hi um i would like to note that it is a better idea to put the plist in the file /Library/LaunchDaemons/ folder instead because the /System folder is technically only for Mac os x system files… and it works in the /Library folder just as well….